Jon A

Jon A

@jonabrams.com

Canadian in Northern California. Pinball, old video games, javascript, science. https://dailies.jonabrams.com/

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I love that someone needed to solve cliché high school math problems to make these happen.

Vince Mpls@vincempls.bsky.social

Up through the 1930s, State Fairs across America featured head on collisions between trains. The first occurred at the Iowa State Fair in 1896 before a crowd of 20,000. This video is from the Minnesota State Fair during the Great Depression, as featured in the poster below:

I think I’m starting to realize why they renamed it from Department of Defense to Department of War

You can make a perfect game better?!

Team Cherry@teamcherry.bsky.social

Hollow Knight is now available on Nintendo Switch 2, Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S with higher frame-rates, higher resolution and additional effects! Free upgrade for all Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox players. Additional updates across all platforms. Read the patch notes: tinyurl.com/236k78mb

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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Can you guess the source of this blue hedgehog? Clue: It's from 1987 but the first Sonic the Hedgehog game came out in 1991.

My favorite LA fun fact is that when you translate “The La Brea Tar Pits” to English you get “The the tar tar pits”

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“Sleep and circadian experts generally advocate for permanent Standard Time… Change between Standard Time and DST is not simply loss/gain of sleep, but rather misalignment between circadian and social clocks…”

Can we plz stop with YouTube thumbnails that contain fabricated social media posts? They work because they’re engaging, but they’re also lies. @t3.gg

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It’s been a few months and I have a new update on SS1 disk reading. We ended up improving disk reading to be on par with loading from an SD in almost all CD-cores. All CD cores except PS1 = indistinguishable from SD. PS1 = edge cases where a game can be <1% slower.

Taki Udon@takiudon.bsky.social

Doing some testing of SS1 reading PS1 data directly from a disk without dumping the data first. It’s much better than I expected. That being said, copying games to the SD or SSD is still the optimal strategy for performance. It’s a one-time process and better for random access.

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Riding BART on Saturday? We will have long trains. Parking is free. You can now pay for BART by tapping your contactless credit/debit card or using Apple Pay or Google Pay at the fare gates. No set up and no need to use a machine. Just Tap and Ride.

I’m legit concerned they’re going to release smallpox either in an attempt to disprove germ theory, or due to stupidity.

Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone. Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

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The debate over the rights of citizens vs. non-citizens entirely misses the point when you look at the actual text of the Constitution and its later amendments. The Founding Fathers already answered this question, and did so in a way that should have spared us all of this wrangling and argument.

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Four days until release! Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available on 4th September. Release times: 7AM PT | 10AM ET | 4PM CEST | 11PM JST Game price: USD $19.99 | EUR €19.99 | JPY ¥2300

Just saw Nobody 2. Fun movie, but when they broke a pinball playfield glass, it looked like plate glass. In reality, you probably wouldn't be able to smash a guy's head through the tempered glass on a pinball machine, and if you did, it'd shatter into thousands of pieces, instead of sharp chunks.

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Added preliminary support for loading Sega Saturn games from disk without dumping on SuperStation. It needs some additional work to make it more seamless. PC-Engine CD is next.

Taki Udon@takiudon.bsky.social

I had some downtime after work today, so I added preliminary support for loading Sega CD games from disk without dumping on SuperStation. It works very well! I’ll try Sega Saturn when I get a chance.